SpaceX is scheduled host the next Eastern Range launch with its Falcon 9 rocket later this month.

Teams are targeting no earlier than 12:35 a.m. Feb. 22 for the launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40 with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, an operator based in Spain with subsidiaries in Latin America.

Labeled Hispasat 30W-6, the satellite will provide television, broadband, corporate and other communications to the Americas and Europe. It was manufactured by Space Systems Loral in Palo Alto, California, before shipment to Cape Canaveral in mid-January.

Falcon 9 will deliver H30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit.

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Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center and the return of the rocket's boosters landing at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Makr and Linda Guinn from Minnesota were part of the crowd in Cape Canaveral. Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center and the return of the rocket's boosters landing at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Bart Stutts watches the rocket go out of site. Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center and the return of the rocket's boosters landing at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center and the return of the rocket's boosters landing at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center and the return of the rocket's boosters landing at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Crowds of people. reminiscent of shuttle launch days, line the beaches of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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Crowds in Cape Canaveral watch two of the three boosters from the SpaceX heavy land moments apart at Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.The entire crowd cheered and clapped when the two boosters landed successfully.
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